Issued as second voyage in vol. 1 of: A new collection of voyages and travels, into several parts of the world, none of them ever before printed in English / edited and translated by John Stevens, first printed in serial form, London, December 1708 to January 1710 and here reissued in a London, 1711 collection

Also issued separately, with identical imprint, London, 1709

"A small dictionary of every tongue ...", p. 225-230, contains numbers, general vocabulary and phrases in the English, Tuskeruro [i.e. Tuscarora, a language in the Iroquois family spoken by a tribe in New York State and Ontario], Pamticough [a language spoken by the Pamlico Indians, who lived in Virginia], and Woccon languages [as spoken by a Siouan tribe near Piedmont, North Carolina]

"The second charter granted by Charles II. to the proprietors of Carolina", p. 239-254, has separate caption title

"An abstract of the consititution of Carolina", p. 255-258, has separate caption title

Signatures: [A] (-[A]4) ([A]1 verso blank) B-H I² K-2L (2L4 verso blank)

Bookseller's advertisements: p. [1], 3rd count

Title page printed within double rule border

Hanson

Vail, R.W.G. Old Frontier

Pilling, J.C. Proof-sheets of a bib. of the languages of the North Amer. Indians

Alden, J.E. European Americana

Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800

ESTC

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: wanting p. [5-6], 1st count

John Carter Brown Library copy included in large paper copy measuring 25 cm. in height

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full red morocco

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Edmund Poley of Badley in Com. Suffolk Esq. 1707: armorial book plates on front pastedowns

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